The most pressing issues facing
us today revolve around questions of our relationship to the planet we inhabit. While in the past the wilderness photographs
of Ansel Adams defined the natural environment as a place of untouched pristine beauty, much recent photographic work has
examined the increasing complexity of our interaction with the environment by focusing on such topics
as pollution, global warming, industrial development, resource depletion, sustainability, recycling, and land use. For the
PhotoPlace exhibition PHOTOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, we sought photographs that explore
our relationship to the environment. We are thrilled to welcome Kate
Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, as juror for this
exhibition.

Kate
selected forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from March 30th
through April 20th, 2013 in an exhibition timed to coincide with the Middlebury
College Museum of Art's exhibition Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in
Context.Kate also chose thirty-five additional photos for the gallery’s Online
Annex. All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog available for purchase. To help artists
defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print
their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Photography and Environmental Concern

Photos chosen
for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery

All
photographs are copyright of the individual artists and may not be reproduced without their permission

All
photographs are copyright of the individual artists and may not be reproduced without their permission

Richard AnsettLondon, United Kingdom

Trees
Marked for Felling - TheConsequences of Change #1, 2012

Brenda
BiondoManitou Springs, CO

Bindweed / Cottonwoods

Joan Lobis BrownNew York, NY

Antaractica
- No Snow 2

Jamie CaraylannisSavannah, GA

1 of 2.86 billion lbs of coal/year

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay LochmanWauwatosa, WI

Fruitloops Landscape from Processed Views,
2012

Christine CollinsRoslindale, MA

Untitled(from the series The Keepers)

Roy DiTostiStow, MA

Underground Bunker

David EllingsenManson's Landing, British
Columbia

Sky / Life - Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus 2

Will FennMontgomery, AL

The
Hive (Up Close 3)

Kate Elizabeth FowlerRichmond, VA

Power Plant - The remains of a deer contaminated
with Dioxin,killed by a local hunter for its loins. Nitro, WV.

Dana FritzLincoln, NE

Corner Outlet, Lied Jungle

Terri GarlandSoquel, CA

Norco, Louisiana

Ger GerLos Angeles, CA

Street Cracks

Lauren GrabelleBigfork, MT

Hungry Horse I

Christine Holtz and Lauren S. ZadikowPittsburgh,
PA

Greenspace Dumpsites, Forest Way Site 2,Homewood North

William LeGoullonScottsdale, AZ

Desert
Barnacle 1

Jim LeisySherwood, OR

Slash
and Burn

Athena LonsdaleMissoula, MT

Athena
education

Joyce P. LopezChicago, IL

Drought

Phillip MetcalfSanta Fe, NM

Burned
Hillside

Jane ParadiseProvincetown, MA

Ribbon, Backshore Provincetown

Yves PertonBesancon, France

Spider's
Web and Dewdrop

Nancy PeterfreundSeattle, WA

The
Water Truck, Puebla

Nolan PreeceReno, NV

Big Oil Meets with the Big Fracking Deal 2012

Joann PruittAmarillo, TX

Yellow Wire

John PufferVincennes, IN

Abandoned Coal Mine, Knox County, IndianaNumber
3

Denis RousselBroomfield, CO

From
the compost: Pineapple

Don RussellMcKinney, TX

Plastic
on Overhead Wires

Stanley ShoemakerMorelia, Michoacan,
Mexico

Mechanical Resources

Einat ShtecklerEilat, Israel

Plastic
is not fantastic

Michael SibiliaHopewell Junction, NY

Larry Gibson, Keeper of the Mountain

Jamey StillingsSanta Fe, NM

2
June 2012, #6425

Michael R. StimolaEdgewater, NJ

Phragmite Vortex, Secaucus, NJ

Eric TomberlinWeaverville, NC

Eutrophication, 2009

Michel VariscoNew Orleans, LA

Deepwater Oil Spill

Dan WagnerHuntington, NY

Modern
Life

Kristin L. WareConverse, TX

Baby
Doll Head

Raphael WarshawFairfax, VA

Monument
Construction 32

T.J. WattVictoria, British Columbia, Canada

Klanawa Valley

Photography and Environmental ConcernThe Online Gallery
Annex

All photographs are copyright of the individual artists and may not be reproduced without their permission

Karen AdamsOtaki, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand

Dioxin
Concentrations in Residential Soil,Paritutu, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2005)